Environmental Science
epub |eng | 2011-01-18 | Author:Candace Savage

* * * How Prairie Potholes Work At first glance, a slough does not appear to have the makings of a biological powerhouse. What is it, in the final analysis, ...
( Category: Native American Studies November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-10 | Author:Eric Pooley

31 A Rebel Encampment She wore her hair short—not so much cut as sheered off at the nape, because what does hair matter?—and her indifference to style made her all ...
( Category: Environmental Policy November 11,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-04-18 | Author:Carl Safina [Safina, Carl]

By the start of the third week of June, one-third of the Gulf’s federal waters, 81,000 square miles, remain closed to fishing. And the Economist estimates that BP is on ...
( Category: Drilling Procedures November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:William A. Scott

His system of thought may be briefly summarized as follows: Society is an organism created by the division of labor, each person being a cog in a machine engaged in ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry November 7,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sharon Beder

Television: Promoting Consumerism Although media outlets avoid controversial material, they do not want to bore their audiences. This has brought about an increase in non-news content, or ‘fluff ’, aimed ...
( Category: Environmental October 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-10 | Author:Diane Ackerman [Ackerman, Diane]

WEIGHING IN THE NANOSCALE We’re not just seeing invisibles; we’re engineering things on a minute, invisible-to-the-eye scale. “Nano,” which means “dwarf” in Greek, applies to things one-billionth of a meter ...
( Category: Climatology October 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:Raffles, Hugh

IMAGINE THAT YOU ARE WALKING THROUGH A FOREST Imagine that you are walking through a forest of interarticulated branches. Some are covered with ice or snow, and the sun melts ...
( Category: Environmental Science October 16,2014 )
mobi | | | Author:Endgame Vol. 1

( Category: Environmental Policy October 8,2014 )
azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-03-01 | Author:Boxwell, Michael [Boxwell, Michael]

Maximum power point tracking More expensive solar controllers incorporate a technology called maximum power point tracking (MPPT). An MPPT controller adjusts the voltage being received from the solar array to ...
( Category: Solar September 28,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-02-01 | Author:David Dobbs

4 Even as he was composing his Chile notes, Darwin was turning his mind west. The Beagle, having finished its laborious survey of the South American coast, was making ready ...
( Category: Marine Life September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-22 | Author:Andrew Blackwell [Blackwell, Andrew]

Bravo Watch was quiet that night. There were rumors that Mary was heartbroken to have turned back, that she considered it a major blow to Project Kaisei. It was impossible ...
( Category: Environmental Science September 15,2014 )
azw3, mobi |eng | 2012-02-06 | Author:Paul Gilding

Let no waste go to waste Ensure that all used materials are recycled and reused, at the very least to recover the embedded energy. To force this, limit production of ...
( Category: Human Geography September 15,2014 )
azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-06-01 | Author:Christian Parenti

From Guerrillas to Gangs Behind bars, the political radicals of Galeria B of Cândido Mendes Prison organized themselves and then united with the general-population inmates. The common criminals saw how ...
( Category: Human Geography September 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-08 | Author:Russell Gold [Gold, Russell]

McClendon became convinced by around 2003 that whichever company could grab the most acreage would succeed. Those who dallied would be left behind. By the middle of 2006, he was ...
( Category: Drilling Procedures September 2,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-18 | Author:Dan Fagin [Fagin, Dan]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Cluster Busting By the spring of 1995, when Steve Jones called to ask him to look into a possible cluster of childhood cancer in Toms River, Michael Berry ...
( Category: Environmental Science August 19,2014 )